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* In the early 1980s FORTRAN ASCII graphics ''[[Star Trek]]'' game the player can activate the Enterprise's [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]. Which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

** In some ports of this game, when the Enterprise explodes, it will destroy any nearby Klingon ships. Depending on the port, this can result in a net increase in the player's final score, making it, if nothing else, a reasonable thing to do when all other options have been exhausted. One Commodore 64 port, titled "Space: The Ultimate Frontier" plays it out as a sort of cut scene, evoking ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''.

* Similarly, ''[[Star Trek: ~~Voyager|Star Trek~~ Voyager]]: Elite Force'' lets you activate Voyager's self-destruct system. While it gets disabled immediately so nobody dies, it does result in your character's incarceration and a game over. (Ironically, Captain Janeway is notorious for her auto-destruct habit—she uses it three times in Season 2 alone.)

* Similarly, ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]: Elite Force'' lets you activate Voyager's self-destruct system. While it gets disabled immediately so nobody dies, it does result in your character's incarceration and a game over. (Ironically, Captain Janeway is notorious for her auto-destruct habit—she uses it three times in Season 2 alone.)

* In ''[[Streets of Rage]] 3'', throws cannot be performed on the "big ben" type of enemy. However, rather than just disallowing throws on them, the game instead has these enemies crush the player any time they try a throw, doing a fairly large chunk of damage. And just to mock you further, the fat bastards will laugh at you if they squash you... or pretty much taking damage from anything in their sight.

** Which is a bit of an annoyance for people who have played Streets of Rage 2, where the "Big Ben" type enemies were throwable with no ill effects.

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* In ''[[Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]'', all you need to do to get the [[Bad Ending]] is vote guilty when the game puts you in the role of a juror.

* ''[[Portal 2]]'' features two scenarios where doing this will earn achievements:

** Following [[~~G La DOS~~]]'s advice about {{spoiler|completing the final test chamber will make her seal said chamber and flood it with neurotoxins.}}

** Following [[GLaDOS]]'s advice about {{spoiler|completing the final test chamber will make her seal said chamber and flood it with neurotoxins.}}

** Following Wheatley's advice about {{spoiler|coming back to his deathtrap after you've escaped it will make him lament that it no longer works and try [[Easter Egg|and try and try]] to make you leap into the pit the deathtrap was over instead.}}

* In [[Sword of the Stars]], there is a technology you can research called "[[Artificial Intelligence]]". It, and the technologies that come after it, promise huge boosts to your research, economy and industry, as well as a new ship section that makes your ships extra fast and accurate. Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? [[AI Is a Crapshoot|It is.]] Every turn that you spend researching it or its associated techs, the [[Turned Against Their Masters|robots have a chance of rebelling against you.]] In that turn, you lose half the planets and any AI ships in your empire to a new computer-controlled civilization that plays at a high difficulty level (even if you set the game on Easy) and starts with all of your best technologies, including the AI techs, which you lose. Frankly, it would be more merciful to just give you a [[Nonstandard Game Over]].